CD/MP3 Player
November 19, 2006 on 11:23 pm | In Life, Tech |I’ve had my CD player for three years now and I dropped it tonight while out running. It exploded sending parts everywhere. This is most likely due to me taking out all the screws two years ago and never bothering to put them back in. The reason I was trying to take it apart was that I had dropped it before and the only thing that broke was the spring on the open/close slider. I wanted to fix it but never was able to since I couldn’t even seem to get it open. Thus the reasoning that it doesn’t need screws.
I picked up all the parts after it was dropped tonight and went home. I’ve been thinking about MP3 players for a long time now but I wasn’t going to buy one until my CD player gave out. This is because it plays MP3s too. Storage was cheap, just writable CDs and it had great battery life. The biggest downside was the large size of it, even though it’s small for CD players.
When I got home I spent some time surfing around different MP3 player sites. I didn’t really find anything that I liked that wasn’t really expensive. Finally I had a look at my broken CD player and amazingly I was able to put it back together. I put a CD and it works fine, it just has one more dent. So it looks like I won’t be buying a new MP3 player quite yet.
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Manintenance and Repair. It gets very little attention these days, but is still a worthwhile quest. I fixed a shattered USB flash drive with a soldering gun tht was way too large for the job… and with luck received, it now works.
Yeah.
YFD
Comment by YFD — November 20, 2006 #
cheap b@stard.
i am in the same boat.
it looks like my minidisc player is losing it’s life.
this makes me sad because out of all of the portable music players, it is my strongest opinion that minidisc is the best of sound quality.
that being said, i think i might get the creative zen.
werd.
v/
Comment by vasyL — November 20, 2006 #